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Dominican Republic - Medical Mission Organizations
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Agape Flights Agape Flights makes regular weekly flights to Haiti, the Dominican Republic and Bahamas for over 350 missionary families. Agape distributes medicine, medical supplies, nutritional supplements. They coordinate short-term, volunteer mission teams and organizes and implement self-sustaining community development projects. They run a Mission House in Santo Domingo. Also serves in Honduras and Belize. |
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Aldo Castañeda Foundation (La Fundacion Aldo Castañeda) Guatemalan organization established to develop a high quality pediatric cardiac unit in Guatemala (to help children from Guatemala, Honduras, El Salvador, Nicaragua, Belize, Dominican Republic and Haiti). Funds raised help train medical, nursing and technical personnel and also acquire the necessary equipment. Founded by top pediatric cardiac surgeon Dr. Aldo Castaneda. |
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Baptist Medical Missions International Baptist Medical Missions International is a program offering free medical care by volunteer health care professionals where there is need around the world. The medical/evangelistic teams, comprised of hundreds of doctors, dentists, optometrists, pharmacists, nurses, and a host of other health care professionals visited/will visit in 2004 Guatemala, Honduras, and the Dominican Republic, as well as many other countries. |
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Batey Relief Alliance Humanitarian aid organization with the purpose of addressing the difficulties facing the indigent population living in the bateys [labor enclaves] of the Dominican Republic, including the Haitian migrants and their families by raising awareness about their plight by facilitating dialogues and by forming partnerships so that effective programs can be created. |
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Butterfly Foundation Butterfly Foundation is dedicated to improving the lives of children with complex spine deformity. US medical teams surgeries for children in developing countries while promoting the advancement of spine deformity treatment technology by training local surgeons. Involved since 2003 in Santo Domingo, at Gautier Hospital. |
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Caribbean Heart Menders Caribbean Heart Menders provides life-saving surgery for children in need as well as helps train medical professionals and develop local hospitals to be able to treat patients on their own. Since 2003, CHMA has sponsored a surgical and interventional cardiac catheterization one-week long trip to the Dominican Republic. Their team performed heart surgery and catheterization at Clinica Corazones Unidos in Santo Domingo and in Santiago. |
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Catholic Medical Missions Board Catholic Medical Mission Board (CMMB) is a U.S.-based Catholic-charity focusing on global healthcare, particularly the well-being of women and children. CMMB works to fight HIV/AIDS from Africa to Asia, to combat tuberculosis in Zambia, and to provide primary healthcare in Latin America and the Caribbean. |
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Children of the Nations Children of the Nations works in homes, schools, farms, skill centers, clinics, and village feeding centers in the US, Dominican Republic, Sierra Leone, and Malawi. Over 300 interns have served from one month to one year in each country. COTN supports sends both medical and surgical teams as well as evangelistic teams to these countries. |
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Christian Medical Mission Dedicated to providing affordable (if not free) health care to the people of the Moca province and surrounding areas of the Dominican Republic. The Moca Clinic offers dental services (filling, removal, replacement, and hygiene of teeth as well as Preventive care including sealants)and medical services (adult and pediatric care, and optometry services.) |
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Christian Outreach International Short-term missions include medical missions to the Dominican Republic. |
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Christian Service International (CSI Ministries) CSI works with churches, schools, universities, families and individuals to design custom international and national outreach experiences. CSI handles all the details and provides the assistance group leaders and coaches need to have a successful experience. Works in Guatemala, Belize, Haiti, the Dominican Republic and Honduras, among other countries. |
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Clínica Esperanza y Caridad Clínica Esperanza y Caridad is a sustainable medial mission that is run by the Episcopal church in San Pedro de Macorís on the southeastern Caribbean coast of the Dominican Republic. It has three major divisions: Clinical Medicine, Physical Therapy & Rehabilitation and Community Health & Prevention. It is run by two American physicians, Anita and Michael Dohn, who work as medical missionaries for the South American Missionary Society. Missionary Society. |
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COPA (Community Partners Association) COPA works in support of communities in the Dominican Republic. Since 1991 volunteers from the U.K. and the U.S. alongside the people from the villages, have built two schools, two pre-schools, two dining shelters and two kitchens. They sponsor a medical clinics in LaHoya and Bombita that were built along with the schools and a Health Advisor that works with the local public health nurses and doctors to provide health care services at the clinic in the communities. |
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Crossroads Crossroads offers basic medical assistance to those who could never imagine the possibility of a trip to the doctor's. Partners with Timmy Foundation for some medical trips. |
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Episcopal Medical Missions Foundation Episcopal Medical Missions Foundation is an effort on the part of health professionals and other lay members of the Episcopal Church to organize and augment the support of our medical missionaries as they deliver medical and spiritual aid in mission stations of Honduras, Jamaica, Haiti, the Dominican Republic, Nigeria and Uganda. |
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Esperanza Dominican Relief Esperanza has been working in various clinics in the barrios, with Dominican nurses and physicians to create an ongoing, cross cultural learning experience, where an exchange of current medical and surgical techniques, as well as social needs takes place. Vaccinations and other medicines are routinely purchased and distributed directly to the clinics. Esperanza also facilitates surgical referrals to surgeons in the United States for Dominicans that are in need of necessary, advanced and more expertise surgery, otherwise unobtainable in their country. |
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Fellowship of Associates of Medical Evangelism (FAME) FAME partners with other mission organizations to deliver a unique combination of medical mission services, including medical facilities, medicines and medical supplies, and short-term mission teams. Countries served include Honduras, Haiti, and the Dominican Republic. |
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G.O. Ministries G.O. Ministries recruits, equips and coordinates people for short-term missions to the Dominican Republic and Haiti. Operates through "hubs" in Santiago, Batey Nueve and Quanamenthe, with services including medical/dental clinics, feeding and nutrition centers for children, and education programs. |
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Gift of Life International- Dominican HEARTS Program Gift of Life International is a partner with a number of other organizations to provide onsite training of health care professionals, doctors and nurses, in providing corrective open-heart surgery for the needy children of the Dominican Republic. Through the coordinated efforts initiated by the International Hospital for Children, GOLI is a partner in helping to improve the cardiac care given within the Dominican borders. The goal of this consortium of non-profit organizations is to upgrade the level of capabilities of the health care professionals along with procuring the medical equipment necessary to be self-sufficient. Training is done at CEDIMAT in Santo Domingo. |
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Global Health Outreach Global Health Outreach operates under the auspices of the CMDA. Founded in 1931, CMDA provides programs and services supporting its mission to "change hearts in healthcare" with a current membership of more than 17,000. CMDA promotes positions and addresses policies on healthcare issues; conducts overseas medical evangelism projects through its mission arm, Global Health Outreach; coordinates a network of Christian doctors for fellowship and professional growth; sponsors student ministries in medical and dental schools; distributes educational and inspirational resources; hosts marriage and family conferences; provides Third World missionary doctors with continuing education resources; and conducts academic exchange programs overseas |
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Heart to Heart Mission This "Heart to Heart" mission is indeed led by cardiothoracic surgeon Dr. Robert Pascotto of Fort Myers, Florida. Since September 2002, Dr. Pascotto and his team have operated on 220 patients. It is our goal to continue our missions three times a year so that the indigent patients of Santiago will benefit from cardiac surgical intervention and our teaching faculty will continue to instruct the resident doctors and the hospital nursing staff. |
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Iglesia Episcopal Dominicana (Episcopal Diocese of the Dominican Republic) Diocese encompasses Clinica Esperanza and Clinica Buen Pastor, and supports over 50 medical missions trips to the Dominican Republic annually. |
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Institute for Latin American Concern (ILAC) at Creighton University ILAC is a faith-based group that has a free-standing clinic near Santiago with three operating rooms and five exam rooms. ILAC has a system of health-care workers, called cooperadores, who live in remote villages and perform health screenings. The cooperadores bring surgical candidates to the clinic. |
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International Aid International Aid is a Christian relief agency focusing on supplying medical missions with bio-medical staff, used and new medical equipment, and donated products. In addition, they respond as a relief organization responding to disasters. |
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International Child Care International Child Care is a Christian Health development organization. Operating in Haiti since 1967 and in the Dominican Republic since 1988, ICC is working to change the conditions that make people sick, hungry, impoverished and afraid. |
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International Children's Heart Foundation The mission of the International Children's Heart Foundation (ICHF) is to bring the skills, technology and knowledge to cure and care for children with congenital heart disease to developing countries. They work in a number of countries. In the Dominican Republic they work at Arturo Grullon Children's Hospital in Santiago |
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International Hospital for Children (IHC) The IHC program focuses on surgery and treatment for children of Latin America, with future plans to expand areas of service. They provide critical surgeries for children at IHC Network Hospitals, and send surgical and diagnostic missions to program countries including Guatemala, the Dominican Republic, and Honduras. |
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International Medical Alliance of Tennessee (IMA) IMA provides access to medical care in underserved and vulnerable communities around the world through short term medical mission trips. Supports the Good Samaritan Hospital in Jimani. Since the earthquake in Haiti, it has become a gateway for relief efforts and a safe haven for Haitians who cross the border. |
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La Romana Dreamin' Information on the mission work with the Good Samaritan Hospital and the Maranatha Baptist Church. This webpage was designed to help new and returning work teams as well as provide information for others seeking to begin a mission work overseas. |
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La Romana Mission Group Supports the work of the Haitian Baptist Church and the Good Samaritan Hospital in La Romana, Dominican Republic. La Romana Mission Group is a loosely organized group of church members and medical professionals who care deeply about the spiritual and health needs of this population. |
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LaRomana.org Organization that supports medical mission work to benefit the people of La Romana, Dominican Republic. |
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LEAP Foundation The LEAP Foundation provides reconstructive surgery to correct cleft lips, cleft palates, congenitally absent ears, and other facial deformities and disfiguring injuries. In addition, volunteer mission teams have included general surgeons, eye surgeons, ocular prosthetics and prosthetic specialists. Sends teams to Dominican Republic. |
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Medical Ministry International MMI is committed to meet the need for medical care among the world's poor with lasting solutions through excellence in medicine, patient care, and health education. They work through short-term medical missions and by establishing permanent medical centers. |
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Medical Mission Group MMG is a group of volunteer medical professionals dedicated to bringing surgical intervention to children and adults in need in Central and South America, and in the Caribbean. |
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Medical Missionaries A non-profit organization striving to bring medical care to the impoverished of the world. Founded on a desire to change lives, Medical Missionaries is dedicated to helping the poorest of the poor regardless of race, religion, or political affiliation. Works in rural mountain areas of the Dominican Republic. |
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Mission to the Children Christian Medical Mission / Mission to the Children Teams, are formed from health care professionals and volunteers living in the United States and in the Dominican Republic. These teams travel to various sites in the Dominican Republic on a short term basis. They provide medical and dental services from 1 to thirty days in city and rural areas, meeting the health care and spiritual needs of the Dominican people. |
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Missionary Ventures International MVI is a Christian healthcare ministry that sends short term medical missions to countries around the world including Guatemala, Haiti, Belize, Honduras, the Dominican Republic and Belize. Volunteers welcome. |
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Overseas Medical Assistance Team OMAT's mission is to enhance the quality of medical care in developing countries by providing medical assistance through volunteers, donating medical equipment and supplies to health care organizations overseas, conducting in-service training and health education to these organizations, raising funds for related activities or projects, and arranging for severely ill patients to be brought to the United States for treatment. |
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Physicians for Peace Physicians For Peace sends teams of medical volunteers, including physicians, dentists, nurses and other health professionals, on medical missions to places where their healing skills are needed. Dominican Republic programs include dental clinics, burn compression units, and women's health programs. |
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Project HOPE in the Dominican Republic Project HOPE has been working with the American and Dominican Associations of the Order of Malta since 1996, providing education and clinical care to pregnant women and young children at a community health clinic in Herrera, one of the poorest barrios of Santo Domingo. |
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Solid Rock Missions Non-demoninational Christian Organization supports medical and Christian ministries and operates a medical clinic in the San Juan, Dominican Republic area. |
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Somos Amigos Medical Missions Somos Amigos Medical Missions is a service trip that travels to the El Naranjito, Dominican Republic multiple times per year to provide medical and dental care for the local communities. The program was established in 1997 by a group of volunteers, dentists, and physicians looking to bring care for under-served areas in developing countries. The program welcomes physicians, dentists, hygienists, medical and dental students, nurses, and translators of all backgrounds and ages. |
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South American Missionary Society (SAMS) SAMS recruits, trains, and sends missionaries to several South American countries. SAMS staffs medical clinics in Honduras and the Dominican Republic. They sponsor short- and long-term missionaries in many countries. |
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Student Volunteers in Optometric Services to Humanity (SVOSH) SVOSH is the student branch of Volunteers in Optometric Services to Humanity (VOSH). SVOSH members main goal is to go on an overseas mission trip in their third year to provide eye care. The students put in a minimum of 40 hours of volunteering prior to each trip, most of which is paid for through fund-raisers. There are roughly 17 chapters of SVOSH nationally. |
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Team Canada Healing Hands TCHH aims to provide and develop interdisciplinary rehabilitation treatment, education and training in areas of need. During each mission, volunteers both teach and provide care in rehabilitation clinics, prosthetic and orthotic clinics, hospitals and orphanages, as well as teach courses in rehabilitative therapy, public health, primary care, and specialized medical topics. |
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Timmy Foundation Foundation's mission is to enhance the medical treatment available to children living in poverty in Haiti, Honduras, Dominican Republic,and other countries. Medical and dental mission trips are sent. |
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Unto Inc. Unto Inc. helps needy children worldwide through child sponsorship, mission teams, relief efforts, literacy programs, health initiatives, sports activities, computer training. The Dominican Republic is a focus country. Teams have built the Lighthouse School (primary and high school) and the Hospital of Hope in Los Alcarrizos. Teams have also worked at two Christian clinics, one in the La Fe area of Los Alcarrizos and the one in San Juan, near the Haitian border. |
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Variety Children's Lifeline VCL provides medical assistance to children with treatable and survivable heart conditions in developing countries. Lifeline is also involved in pediatric neurosurgeries, cranial-facial procedures, tuberculosis, neonatal clinics, pediatric rehabilitative medicine and plastic surgeries for children. Country list includes Mexico, Peru, Haiti, Tibet, Nicaragua and the Dominican Republic. |
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Village Presbyterian Church (Prairie Village, KS) Since 1994, Village Presbyterian Church has been sponsoring medical teams and providing primary health care to Haitian cane cutters in villages surrounding La Romana in the Dominican Republic. The ministry now includes surgical trips to Good Samaritan Hospital and programs to address speci?c needs. |
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Village Presbyterian Church (Prairie Village, KS) This organization has been sponsoring medical teams and providing primary health care to Haitian cane cutters in villages surrounding La Romana for over a decade. Surgical teams work at Good Samaritan Hospital. Long term programs address malnutrition of children and women’s health. |
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Volunteer Optometric Services to Humanity (VOSH/International) VOSH volunteers are optometrists, opticians, ophthalmologists, and medical personnel in 33 chapters. During the year 2003 VOSH completed more than 90 missions serving over 140,000 people. Missions are from one to two weeks. In addition VOSH has helped establish permanent eye clinics in Honduras, Guatemala, El Salvador, Nicaragua, Haiti and Mexico . Their programs provide recycled eyeglasses, treat eye disease and perform eye surgery. |
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Volunteers in Medical Missions (VIMM) VIMM teams take medical care, medication, vitamins, supplies & Christian love and concern to impoverished areas of the world. Teams travel to Honduras, Dominican Republic, and Guatemala. |
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Wings of Morning Wings of Morning is a non-profit, nondenominational Christian medical, dental, evangelical organization working in the Caribbean, Central and South America, and the Pacific. WOM sponsors short-term missions in both medical and dental clinics, with an emphasis upon evangelism. |